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September 15, 2011
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P: Clone/Heal Tool rotation

  • September 15, 2011
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The Clone & Heal tool is really great. I really find it easy to use. It would be great to be able to rotate the healed/cloned area. This would be really useful for blending lines. I hope it's clear what I'm trying to ask for, any questions give me a shout.

John

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    charlesb12994120
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    January 3, 2023

    So, you can't.  You are incapable of supporting your argument. 

     

    Both of your replies in this thread add absolutely nothing to the discussion, they only attempt to shut it down-- I think this goes completely contrary to the point of this forum.  You aren't helping.

      TheDigitalDog
      TheDigitalDog
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      January 3, 2023

      "Digitaldog, can you point to a thread with an idea that was implemented, so we can see how many upvotes it takes for Adobe to take a community suggestion into reality?"

       

      There is no magic number that guarantees Adobe will implement a change. Nor do they make any promises to do so.

      But the longer a post floats around here, with very few votes, the more the likelihood the team will simply ignore even considering the feature. 

      Even the very few of us who've been beta testers for Adobe for nearly 30 years and ask the team for features often find we don't get what we ask for. 

      When I (and my partners) wanted what we felt were better tools inside Photoshop, we did something about it; we created three commercial products.  

      "There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints." - Rita Dove

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      charlesb12994120
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      January 3, 2023

      Digitaldog, can you point to a thread with an idea that was implemented, so we can see how many upvotes it takes for Adobe to take a community suggestion into reality?

        TheDigitalDog
        TheDigitalDog
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        January 2, 2023

        39 votes since 2011, don't hold your breath. 

        Maybe get more users to upvote...

        Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
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        iamneallyons
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        January 2, 2023

        How on earth has this not been implemented yet?!?!?! how many versions of LR do we need before this is put in? its such an oversight to not be able to rotate the heal/clone tool - you cannot use it for anything that requires a line or a curve, sort it out adobe!

          dave6223
          dave6223
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          December 7, 2022

          Hello, I am really enjoying LR Cloud..A suggestion.

          Could we have a rotation option in the healing / cloning tool.

          Example: You have just removed someone from an image but the edit left an area that needs to be cloned back in.However the area you want to copy from is curved and is a mirror image of the target image to be cloned back .If you could rotate or flip the cloned area to match the target area it would make this tool very versitile for that editing situation..Thank you...

          David St. Germain Jr.
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            gabrieln92850430
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            March 17, 2020
            I totally agree, the ability to rotate the healed area would be hugely useful. As a bonus, the software could even try to do it automatically if it detects a clear shape in the source area.
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              daniell11223644
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              March 15, 2020


              We should be able to rotate the sample source for the healed or cloned area, so that when trying to work on curves, we can have them line up correctly.

              Either by rotating the source or having a slide to rotate the applied image in the heal area.

              For example if you’re trying to heal or clone something out on the edge of a circle, then sampling another area of that circle will give you an edge mismatch.

              In the attachment you can see the edge doesn’t line up and the angle is wrong and doesn’t join back up at the end of the heal, being able to rotate it would go a long way to fixing it.

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                JohanElzenga
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                June 16, 2019
                You need to understand how this works. Requests can be voted for, so Adobe gets an idea how many people would want this. It’s not that they don’t listen, but they cannot honor each and every request that all xxx million Lightroom users can come up with. This request got 17 votes in those 5 years...
                -- Johan W. Elzenga
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